The Reporting Procedure 4 for the submission of these reports is either explicitly set out in the provisions of the treaty or as indicated in the ICESCR and ICCPR at the discretion of the Treaty Body. While initial reports are required to be submitted within one or two years of the entry into force of the relevant treaty for the specific State party, the timeframe for submitting periodic reports varies from two to six years depending on the treaty. In the case of the ICCPED, the Committee may request State parties to provide additional information on its implementation, even though the Convention does not provide for a regular reporting framework in its provisions (article 29 (4)). The practice of the Committee has been to request the submission of such complementary information no later than three or six years after the consideration of a State party report, depending on the situation of the State party with respect to the issues covered by the Convention. TABLE 4 REPORTING PERIODICITY UNDER THE TREATIES Treaty Initial reports (within) Periodicity of reports ICERD 1 year 2 years but de facto periodicity 4* years ICESCR 2 years 5 years** ICCPR 1 year 3 - 6 years*** CEDAW 1 year 4 years CAT 1 year 4 years CRC 2 years 5 years CRC-OPAC 1 year Integrated into next CRC report every 5 years; or 5 years for States not party to CRC CRC-OPSC 2 years Integrated into next CRC report every 5 years; or 5 years for States not party to CRC ICRMW 1 year 5 years CRPD 2 years 4 years ICPPED 2 years**** -- *De facto periodicity since 1988, see A/43/18 (Supplement No. 18), paragraph 24 (c). CERD allows merging two reports into one. **Article 17 of the ICESCR states that ECOSOC shall establish the reporting periodicity under the Covenant, and so it did in its resolution 1988/4. See Rule 58 of CESCR’s Rules of Procedure. ***The average periodicity is four years. However, in line with article 40 of ICCPR the Human Rights Committee exercises its discretion to decide when periodic reports should be submitted and it does so depending on a State party’s level of compliance with the provision of the Covenant (see Rules 66 and 70 (1) of the Human Rights Committee Rules of Procedure). The number of years chosen by the Committee for periodic reports is decided by the Committee on the adoption of concluding observations of each State and is based on the Committee’s view of the human rights situation in the State party concerned. ****CED does not refer to initial and periodic reports. 33